QUOTES

If you speak pro wrestling or MMA, you almost speak any language.

People want to see fighters who can put on a little show and then back it up. Hopefully I can do both of those things.

To be successful in WWE, you have to love what you do. You have to want to steal the show every time you go out.

To be able to change from being essentially a bad guy into a really hot babyface overnight is very hard to do.

I really like Bellator and them as a company and how they are run. It's a popular place for fighters to go to.

As far as the work in the ring, it's so much technique and spacing and timing, and that's what amateur wrestling is, too. So I felt like I learned very fast and a lot of things came naturally for me.

If you go back and look at WWE Magazine, they asked me when I was going to win my first world championship and I told them WrestleMania XXVI, so I was only a couple days off.

I look like a winner, I smell like a winner, so why not put it on the big screen?

I've always been a big fan of Hollywood.

Wrestling for wrestling fans is an honor.

When I look in the mirror, I'm a husband and a father first.

I want to grow my brand and help wrestling continue to grow, too.

A lot of people want me to say negative things about WWE, but I'm very grateful for my career there.

I relate everything to amateur wrestling, including the way I watch basketball and the way I watch football. My brain thinks as an amateur wrestler. That's who I am.

Once you're an amateur wrestler, you're always an amateur wrestler.

Pro wrestling is all about staying fresh.

Pro wrestling fans love surprises, so let's surprise them, and not just give them the old stuff.

Let's come together, let the people stop fighting each other, but let them fight in the octagon.

In this world, I feel like we all need to be nicer to each other.

We The People' is public domain, any American can use that.

I feel like being a professional wrestling has definitely made me a better MMA fighter.

I would say to the critics that they don't have a black belt in time management like I do.

I think it's surprising for a lot of people to see Jack Swagger crossover to MMA because they know Jack Swagger more than they know Jake Hager.

MMA fans and pro wrestling fans are similar in that they care about their sports very much. They want to see that you're serious and not making fun of them or the sport that they love.

I grew up with two cousins from North Dakota who were junior national champions. They're a lot older than me and I looked up to them as my older brothers.

The nerves with WWE performance is more the live television angles because we have time limits and have storylines we want to get through in that time. You're going to forget a lot about the spots.

I was never the best athlete, but I knew how to be coached and I knew how to work hard at it.

MMA is very difficult; you can't just be good at wrestling. You need striking, kickboxing, jiu-jitsu and countless other things.

Growing up in Perry, Oklahoma, there's not a lot going on, so we would go wrestle anywhere and anyplace we could. It really is who I am.

Yes, pro wrestling is damaging on your body. It hurts.